The years flowed like water, passing slowly and painfully amid boundless desolation and loneliness...
Little Su Mo stared blankly as the little girl planted one peach tree after another all alone, with hope and persistence.
Under the little girl's ceaseless work, day and night, a peach grove gradually grew upon the golden Divine Mountain...
The peach trees grew, patch after patch, until at last, over the long years, peach trees covered the hundred-mile Divine Mountain.
But the Divine Mountain had no seasons.
No matter what, those peach trees could not bloom...
The little girl sat listlessly beneath a peach tree, staring blankly at Hundred-Mile Peach Mountain, where no peach blossoms would bloom. Her expression gradually shifted from her initial anticipation to disappointment, then from disappointment to despair.
"Why won't you bloom?" the little girl asked tearfully of the peach trees she had planted with her own hands.
"If you don't bloom, my little brother won't come. If my little brother doesn't come, Yuan Yuan will be all alone..."
The little girl's frail figure crouched on the ground, hugging her knees, crying and sobbing.
"Granny Heavenly Secrets said my little brother would only come when peach blossoms bloomed everywhere, so he must really like peach blossoms."
"But I've already planted peach trees everywhere. It's the peach trees themselves that won't bloom..."
"My little brother won't blame me, will he...?"
Looking at the hundred miles of peach trees, the little girl began consoling herself over and over. "Maybe my little brother will come even if the peach trees don't bloom?"
And so, filled with anticipation once more, the little girl sat crouched beneath a peach tree and began waiting for the "little brother" Granny had spoken of to come.
Day after day, year after year.
That tiny figure looked utterly lonely and